Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rhetoric of riot is easy. It's not hard to go into the poorest section of Roxbury and amass a sympathetic audience by enumerating Whitey's misdeeds over the years. It is easier, in fact, to do that then to construct a Black Movement based not on racial hatred but rather on political, economic, and social progress in the Negro community...
...Civil Rights Movement should now make the cost-benefit analysis of riot, before it embarks on a campaign which will irrepairably rend the fabric of American life along racial lines. The possible benefits which riots produce for the Movement are the following...
They will continue to increase all forms of racial hatred and discrimination...
...Jackson Citizens' Council, a white supremacy group in Mississippi, recently asked the major candidates in the Democratic gubernatorial campaign to explain "why our ideals of states' rights and racial segregation" were not being "featured in this campaign as in the past." A reasonable explanation might be that 195,000 Negroes are now registered to vote, as compared with 29,500 four years...
...their relocation at rents they can pay. In other cases, the new public housing structures themselves deteriorate into slums. Because all tenants of a public housing project have low incomes, the project has basically the same atmosphere as an urban ghetto; almost all occupants are usually members of racial and ethnic minorities...